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Thursday Call To Action Resist The Dream-Killers On The Capitol Steps
The clock is ticking toward a likely economic Armageddon, and House Speaker John Boehner is wasting time trying to score political points rather than address the need to raise the nation's debt ceiling and work toward a balanced solution to the nation's long-term debt...
Stop Calling This A Debt Crisis -- It Isnt
You have probably been hearing about "the debt crisis." I can't open a newspaper or turn on the radio or TV without hearing about "the debt crisis." Well stop calling it that, because that isn't what is going on. There is no debt crisis; the only crisis going on is...
Tea Party Republicans Cant Stomach Helping Students
Speaker John Boehner is having a heckuva time getting his very-right-wing caucus to support any debt ceiling increase that wasn't written on a stone tablet by Ayn Rand herself. What is really striking about the process of trying to appeal to the Republican caucus,...
Lord Voldemort Debt Ceiling Options Increasingly Becoming Speakable
The failure of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to get enough votes yesterday from the Republican caucus to pass the deficit reduction/debt ceiling legislation he drafted has the federal budgeting world scrambling today for new options. With only four days...
Economic Rehab
"And in this week's economic news: They tried to make us go to rehab, we said no, no, no ..." Last week the world noted the decline and death of Amy Winehouse with sadness but no surprise. What a tragedy, people said, that she kept following her self-destructive...
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Stop Calling It A...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/29/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Stop Calling It A...
Choose Your Poison As the Economy Burns GOP & Dems Fight Over How to Make Things Worse
Gandhi famously answered the question "What do you think of Western Civilization?" by saying "I think it would be a good idea." That phrase might come in handy the next time somebody asks what you think of a two-party democracy: It would be a good idea. As the economy...
Ill Be There Oct 3 For The American Dream Conference
We are being lied to about the economy. That’s why I’ve been speaking out – working with MoveOn on videos like “The Economy Explained In 135 Seconds" and "Invest In America." And that’s why I’ll be at the Take Back the American Dream conference on Oct. 3 to talk with...
Why The GOP Aims To Sink The Economy
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." ~ Mark Twain ~ If our economy was the RMS Titanic, Republicans would be like an ambitious first mate, so eager to seize power from the captain that he steers the...
